Influenza remains an important disease in humans and animals. In contrast to measles,
smallpox and poliomyelitis, influenza is caused by viruses that undergo continuous …

My lifetime encompasses the postwar subsidence in the early 1920s of the greatest
influenza pandemic in history, direct encounters with FM1 virus at Fort Mon mouth in 1947 …

Although antiviral drugs and vaccines have reduced the economic and healthcare burdens
of influenza, influenza epidemics continue to take a toll. Over the past decade, research on …

shifting killer travels the globe, leaving millions of corpses in its wake, and the world's
medical community can't stop the carnage. It's a sophomoric idea for a movie script, but that's …

Abstract The 1918 influenza pandemic killed 20–40 million people worldwide, and is seen
as a worst-case scenario for pandemic planning. Like other pandemic influenza strains, the …

Seasonal influenza affects 10% of the population annually, killing up to one million persons
worldwide. Pandemic viruses have even greater potential for mortality. We have several …

During the past year, the public has become keenly aware of the threat of emerging
infectious diseases with the global spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the …

Influenza is an acute respiratory disease in mammals and domestic poultry that emerges
from zoonotic reservoirs in aquatic birds and bats. Although influenza viruses are among the …

Every so often, a strain of influenza unfamiliar in humans suddenly begins passing from
person to person. Because the virus is so unusual, few if any people have built-in immunity …

The 1918 influenza virus, which killed some 50 million people worldwide, has proved fatal to
macaques infected in a laboratory. The study follows Nature's controversial publication [1] of …